Learn how to say "no" with grace and strategy — protecting your team, staying true to your vision and preserving ...

You don’t like saying yes to everything. You just hate the ick that follows saying no. You hate that half-second pause people ...

Stop saying this. You’re not annoying for existing, for needing clarification, for following up, or for having emotions. This phrase is people-pleasing wrapped in self-shame—and it teaches others to ...

It can be tempting to say yes to things you just don't want to do. Might as well just get it done so nothing bad happens, right? But there's a high price for constantly aiming to make other people ...

Perhaps neither hyperbolic discounting nor regret phobia haunts you, but you still say yes too much. In that case, the problem may be that you easily fall prey to a sense of obligation or guilt.